Manufacturing

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Build with Requirements

Designers focus so much on meeting the requirements of the product, it's easy to forget that prototypes have their own unique needs.

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Build in Flexibility

Effective prototyping requires a tightrope walk between the left and right sides of the brain.

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Prototype to Mass Manufacturing: Shifting Priorities along the Medical Device Pathway

Rather than a binary "prototype" and "final product", there are eight distinct categories of builds that a medical device will pass through.

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Found on the Expo Floor - RAPID +TCT Edition

I had the opportunity to spend four days in Detroit exploring the latest and greatest tech in Additive Manufacturing.

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Build in Steps

Prioritizing questions allows a team to focus on obtaining just the information needed to take the next step.

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Production & Manufacturing: “Invisible” Opportunities for Medical Innovation in the Next 10 years.

I was recently asked to give a futurist-type talk, the classic “Five Innovations that will change everything in the next 10 years”.

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Not Here for the Chocolate: Thoughts from a Female Buyer walking the Tradeshow floor.

I have missed the tradeshows. Nothing fills my geeky little manufacturing heart with joy like strolling among hundreds of manufacturing expe

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MedTech Manufacturing Readiness

I had the opportunity to appear as a guest Author on the Product Realization Group's regular blog on Product Design and Development a few we